Svenja Fox is a research assistant at the Environmental Policy Research Centre at Free University Berlin where she is also completing her MA degree in Environmental Management. Her special foci include biodiversity and and agrobiodiversity, agricultural and food policy. Earlier work includes a study on the acceptance of climate change mitigation measures amongst German farmers, research on different aspects of biodiversity and agrobiodiversity policy (partly as an intern at the Öko-Institut Berlin) and on the governance of common-pool resources. During a research stay at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam she studied the distributional effects of environmental aid allocation and the access to environmental funding, specifically focusing on resources distributed by the Global Environment Facility.
Currently, Svenja Fox is doing research on participatory irrigation management and the devolution of responsibility from the national to the local level. The study focuses on the performance of water user associations in the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia and examines the role of external factors for the effectiveness of a decentralized management approach in post-soviet societies.
In 2010, she acted as the co-conference manager of the 2010 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
